Seizures of methamphetamine soared at the U.S.-Mexico border during fiscal year 2014, accelerating a trend that began several years ago as new laws that limited access to the drug's chemical ingredients made it harder to manufacture it in the U.S.

The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back -- using a replica of a fully stocked bar.

As air pollution has been detected as reaching serious levels amid dropping temperatures in Western Taiwan, cases of asthma and other breathing difficulties are on the increase, according to Chang Gung Medical Foundation (林口長庚醫院) Chief of Pediatric Allergy Asthma and Rheumatology Division Yeh Kuo-wei (葉國偉).